Singapore Trip

At the end of September, we went to Singapore for a long weekend.  The best part of the trip was meeting up with some great friends from home.  We only got to spend the day with them, but it helped ease some of our homesickness.  The city is incredibly clean and safe, but the weather is hot and humid.  Just an FYI, during the month of September Indonesian famers burn their farms, creating a haze that travels all the way to Singapore.  The haze was really bad a few of the days we were there, but we survived!

Gardens by the Bay was an awesome place, we went there at night with our friends and went to a bar on top of a tree (the views were amazing)!  Art and I went back on our last day to tour the Flower Dome and Cloud Forest, I would recommend a stop here for anyone visiting Singapore.

We also toured Fort Canning Park, also known as the Forbidden Hill because it was once home to Singaporean ancestral kings.  The English used the land as a residence for the governor and then as a fort. 

No trip would be complete without a visit to at least one museum, so we went to the National Museum of Singapore. 

Marina Bay Sands, a hotel with a roof top bar and roof top infinity pool.  The pool is for hotel guests only, but we did go to the observation deck near the bar.

Laksa soup at the food village inside East Coast Park.

  

Bike rentals at East Coast Park.

The Cloud Forest at Gardens by the Bay.

Celebration of Chrysanthemums in the Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay. 

Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum.  We only had time to run in on the day we were leaving, but it has 6 floors of artwork and historic artifacts that you can tour for free.  If we make it back to Singapore, we will be going back here for sure!

It was soo awesome getting to see friends from home halfway across the world!